TRAIN BLOWN UP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1934, Page 8

TRAIN BLOWN UP.

OUTRAGE IN YUGOSLAVIA,

BELGRADE, January 24.

An attempt was made to blow up the Vienna-Zagreb express, near Brezice, 30 miles west of Zagreb, where the Little Entente Conference was scheduled to open a few hours later. Political reverberations are feared.

A bomb exploded in or beneath the last. carriage, which was shattered by the blast, and caught fire, trapping passengers. The charred bodies ■ of three persons were recovered from the wreckage, while a fourth passenger, Professor Johans Fritsch, a noted Vienna physician, suffered severe injuries. The train fortunately was not derailed, and was able to continue the journey after the wreckage was cleared away.

It is generally assumed that the outrage was committed by revolutionary Croatian emigrants, who have been specially active in recent weeks, conducting violent propaganda against the "Serbian dictatorship," and for Croatian autonomy.

It is an open secret that the recent visit of King Alexander and Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia, which had been widely hailed as heralding a policy of reconciliation towards Croatian opposition, was cut short owing to the activities of revolutionaries, it being understood that the police heard of a plot to make an attempt on the King's life.